Patty Lee

Patty Lee is the Chief Scientist for hardware technology development for commercial trapped ion quantum computers at Quantinuum. Her team is pursuing scalable trapped ion technology and delivering commercial quantum computers with high fidelity operations and large quantum volumes. Her career in quantum computing began in graduate school at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, where her thesis research advanced the understanding of phase control for geometric phase gates in trapped ions. She has worked as an experimental physicist at NIST Gaithersburg, US Army Research Laboratory, and Lockheed Martin.